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Article: Ammonoids and the Triassic/Jurassic boundary in the Himalayas of southern Tibet

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 50
Part: 3
Publication Date: May 2007
Page(s): 711 – 737
Author(s): Jiarun Yin, Paul L. Smith, József Pálfy and Raymond Enay
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YIN, J., SMITH, P. L., PÁLFY, J., ENAY, R. 2007. Ammonoids and the Triassic/Jurassic boundary in the Himalayas of southern Tibet. Palaeontology, 50, 3, 711–737.

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